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Thames Star, Volume VI, Issue 1796, 5 October 1874, Page 2

A few days ago a very handsome young lady entered a drapery establishment and enquired for a " beau.' The polite shopman threw himself back and remarked that he was at hor service. " Yes, but I want a buff, not a green one," was the reply. The young man went on measuring goods immediately. He never attempts familiarity now without first conconsidering his customer. Josh os Editors. —The following is Josh Billing's cefiuition of an editor :— An editor is a male being whose business is to navigate a nuze paper. He writes editorials, grinds out poetry, inserts deaths and weddings, sorts manuscripts, keeps a waste basket, blows up the " devil," steals matter, fites other people's battles, sells his paper for a dollar and a half a year, takes white beans and apple sass for pay when he can get it, raises a large family, works 19 hours out uv every 24, knows no Suuday, gets damned by everybody,, and once in a while whipt ,by somebody, lives poor, and dies middle aged and often broken-hearted, leaves' no money, i? rewarded for a life of toil with a short but free obitury puff in the", nuze papers. Exchanges please copy.